China’s enormous consumer base, expanding economy and FDI-friendly policies are luring foreign businesses into plethora of promising opportunities. The success of an investment or alliance, however, often depends on the observation of some unwritten rules. Find out which are the soft aspects companies are to bear in mind before setting foot on China according ...
What to Consider when Doing Business in China? Major Chinese Cultural Values and Business Practices
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How to Recognize and Avoid Securities Investment Fraud?
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Providing relevant information that will help our customers to better protect themselves from investment-related risks is one of Merar’s priority tasks. In our blog archive you can find plenty of articles on the scam threads entrepreneurs are facing when looking for funding. Since investors who seek opportunities are also objects of scam attacks and ...
Investors: How Much Do You Really Know about Investing in Facebook?
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Some of you might remember, back in November 2011, we had an investment project posted on Merar, dealing with Facebook shares acquisition. An ex-member of their company, paid predominantly in shares rather than paychecks, has decided to open his own firm, through which he sold Facebook shares. The amount he was asking for was $57 ...
Managing The Soft Landing Of The Turkish Economy. Better Late Than Never
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Turkey’s GDP growth will slow down to a more sustainable 4% in 2012, down from 8.5% in 2011 and 9.0% in 2010. Driven by strong domestic consumption and private investments, Turkey seems to have no problems growing. The problem is the large current account deficit (10% of GDP) that is the result ...
Establishing Contact on Merar Easier than Ever
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Looking out for the best interest of its members Merar undergoes another change that simplifies the process of contact establishment on Merar.
So far, the party initiating the contact had to send a contact proposal to the other party, which had to be then accepted within seven days. Both parties were sharing the costs for ...
Merar Gives the Word to Investors: The New ‘Offer from Investor’ Feature
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Merar implements new feature enabling investors to announce their interests and requirements to the wide public of entrepreneurs as response to customer requests.
So far, there have been two mechanisms on Merar for investors to find investment opportunities:
- Independently browsing throughout the investment projects database
- Subscribing for a regular update on the investment opportunities matching ...
Uncle Bulgaria (Short Introduction in City A.M.)
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This is a short article released on January 10th in City A.M., London.
Petko Karamotchev doesn’t see Made in Chelsea entrepreneur Francis Boulle as a competitor. He just contacted The Capitalist from Bulgaria to let it be known that his investment network Merar.com operates in “different markets” from Boulle’s investment platform ...
With a Major Change Merar Undertakes Further Steps for the Improvement of the Project Quality and the Investment Talk
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Slightly more than a year after its formal launch Merar hits the best upgrade any investment network site would like to have. By making the contact establishment the core paid service on the network we are significantly improving its quality, reliability and trustfulness.
As from today (18 November 2011) Merar is changing its business model ...
What It Takes To Be a Successful Investor?
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When we saw the video on TechCrunch, we immediately decided to share it with you. In this footage you will see five VCs from the Silicon Valley gathered to talk about the state of investing and what skills and qualities make a successful venture capitalist.
As Robert Hof from Forbes quoted last week “It’s ...
The Right Frame of Mind for Seed Fund Seekers (How to Find Investors, Start and Present Investment Project?)
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If only we had the right frame of mind each time we start a project, odds for success would be much higher. Imagine someone taught us the right way of investing in stocks before trading in the market or driving like a professional before getting into a metropolitan traffic. Most times though this is not ...